Gordon Brown warned parents today they had a duty to keep their children under control amid escalating public fears about youth knife crime.
Up to 20,000 families could face eviction from their homes if they fail to rein in their offspring, the Prime Minister said.
They are among 110,000 households in which children are thought to be at risk of becoming prolific offenders - and where authorities are to target special support.
Youngsters who carry knives were also threatened with being forced to spend their Friday and Saturday nights carrying out hundreds of hours of community punishment.
After a series of high-profile stabbings which has thrust knife crime to the top of the political agenda, Mr Brown acknowledged today that many people felt unsafe in their own homes.
"Too many people, young and old, do not feel safe in the streets, and sometimes even in their homes, as a result of the behaviour of a minority," he told his regular Downing Street press conference.
Foreshadowing a £100 million youth crime action plan to be published tomorrow, Mr Brown said community punishments would be strengthened to make them "tough, visible and effective".
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Thursday, 21 August 2008
Video clips of horrific injuries to be sent to young people in fight against knives
Graphic videos will be emailed to youngsters to shock them out of knife crime under a major drive unveiled yesterday.
The move follows a call by the Daily Mirror's Stop Knives, Save Lives campaign for greater use of text messaging and the internet to tackle blade violence.
The film clips made by Tower Hamlets Council show the bloody effects of knife attacks and will be posted on internet sites such as YouTube and Bebo.
They will also be sent at random to mobile phones via Bluetooth, with young people being encouraged to forward them on.
One video shows a young man with blood gushing from a deep wound to his neck. It ends with the message: "Carry a knife and you risk being stabbed on your own blade."
Another features a doctor talking about the seriousness of knife wounds while a third depicts staged CCTV footage of a street attack.
It comes after two more victims were knifed to death at the weekend. There are an average 56 stabbings a day nationwide. Twenty teenagers have died from the blade in London this year.
The move follows a call by the Daily Mirror's Stop Knives, Save Lives campaign for greater use of text messaging and the internet to tackle blade violence.
The film clips made by Tower Hamlets Council show the bloody effects of knife attacks and will be posted on internet sites such as YouTube and Bebo.
They will also be sent at random to mobile phones via Bluetooth, with young people being encouraged to forward them on.
One video shows a young man with blood gushing from a deep wound to his neck. It ends with the message: "Carry a knife and you risk being stabbed on your own blade."
Another features a doctor talking about the seriousness of knife wounds while a third depicts staged CCTV footage of a street attack.
It comes after two more victims were knifed to death at the weekend. There are an average 56 stabbings a day nationwide. Twenty teenagers have died from the blade in London this year.
Two more dead and five injured in weekend of knife crime
Britain suffered another bloody weekend of knife crime, which left two dead and five more injured.
Three of the attacks were in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where 30-year-old Paul Gilligan, from Little Hulton, died after he was stabbed in the chest and shoulder on Saturday night.
A 19-year-old youth has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
On Friday, a 19-year-old was stabbed in the neck as he sat in his car in Bolton.
He was stable in hospital yesterday.
Earlier on Friday a 24-year-old man was stabbed in the same road after he approached by a man to ask for a cigarette.
There was a row and he was stabbed in the side.
A murder investigation was also under way in Bristol, where a man was stabbed to death during a street disturbance.
He was named by locals as 43-year-old father of four Johnny Derrick, who suffered knife wounds to the head and chest in the Withywood area of the city.
He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition where doctors fought to save him, but he died yesterday morning. Police said he died after a "domestic" dispute.
Three of the attacks were in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where 30-year-old Paul Gilligan, from Little Hulton, died after he was stabbed in the chest and shoulder on Saturday night.
A 19-year-old youth has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
On Friday, a 19-year-old was stabbed in the neck as he sat in his car in Bolton.
He was stable in hospital yesterday.
Earlier on Friday a 24-year-old man was stabbed in the same road after he approached by a man to ask for a cigarette.
There was a row and he was stabbed in the side.
A murder investigation was also under way in Bristol, where a man was stabbed to death during a street disturbance.
He was named by locals as 43-year-old father of four Johnny Derrick, who suffered knife wounds to the head and chest in the Withywood area of the city.
He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition where doctors fought to save him, but he died yesterday morning. Police said he died after a "domestic" dispute.
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